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  1. Panorama Special: Truth About Adoption, The (2011)

    Subject
    Social welfare

    Adoption is now high on the political agenda as the best option for the 65,000 children in care. But, with less than 5% actually placed for adoption, children must wait an average two years and seven months...

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  2. Love is Not Enough (2004)

    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £10.00 hire £25.00 sale

    Follows three adult adoptees as they describe how being transracially adopted has affected their lives. "My adolescence was the most important years for defining my identity and trying to find a happy medium...

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  3. Brylcream’s Better Than Nothing (1997 Video)

    Director
    Karol Kamya
    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 20 min.

    Tells the stories of a policewoman, an army officer and a social worker who were fostered and/or adopted with white or Asian families as children and discusses, through their vastly different experiences,...

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  4. Secrets and Lies (1995 Video)

    Director
    Mike Leigh
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    DVD

    A successful career woman who has just buried her adoptive parents decides to search for her real mother.

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  5. Wishes and Feelings: A Training ‘Trigger’ Video (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1998 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A training video comprising short ‘trigger’ sequences made by children and young people representing a wide range of backgrounds and diversity of experience, saying what is important to them about their...

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  6. Whose Handicap?: Finding New Families for Children with Mental Handicaps (1986 Video)

    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min.

    In 1983 a group of agencies in the south-west of England identified certain children who were not finding families, all of them were mentally handicapped and many of them had other physical and emotional...

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  7. Child Wants a Home, The (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 15 min.

    Tells the stories of three families who adopted children through the Children’s Society’s Norwich project, which was set up in 1980 to find permanent homes for children who are difficult to place,...

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  8. Adoptive Children, Adaptive Feelings (1979 Film)

    Director
    James W Morgenthaler
    Producer
    Steven A Gamble
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Several children, aged 4 to 15, are encouraged to express their feelings to professional workers who are helping them to understand the past, separate from their parents or previous foster parents, and...

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  9. Who Am I? (1968 Film)

    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Three adults who were adopted as infants describe their feelings and attitudes towards their adoptive and biological parents, and their reactions when they first learnt that they were adopted. These...

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